Saturday, January 17, 2009

My First Wedding!

I have been too busy to bake or post anything for the past week or so because I have been very busy getting ready for my first wedding! My friend got married last night and I was lucky enough to make the wedding cake all by myself! After lots of baking, filling, stacking, frosting, more stacking, and more frosting, along with some stressing, I ended up completely satisfied with my cake.

The cake was a 3-tired hexagon cake. It was chocolate cake and the bottom and top layers had a chocolate truffle filling. The middle layer had a white chocolate truffle filling with a layer of fresh raspberries. The bride wanted a chocolate buttercream frosting and ribbon around each tier. Sounds simple enough, right? Well, I will have to do a whole tutorial post on just the ribbon portion. It was a challenge but I finally got it!

I had a lot of fun doing this cake and learned SO much! I am excited to start taking some classes so I can learn some good tips and techniques and learn how to use fondant and other fun things. I am almost ready to do another one!

I also found out when I got there that I would kind of be in charge of the catering part. But that was a lot of fun too. We had 3 different chocolate fountains going with dark chocolate, white chocolate, and milk chocolate. To dip in we had platters of marshmallows, pretzels, sugar cookies, strawberries, apples, pineapple, and bananas. It was beautiful and delicious!

Thank goodness for these girlies who stepped in to help me! We all work together at a local Technical college, so we already are good at helping each other out. We all kind of decided we should quit working where we are and start our own catering business. How fun would that be?! I honestly couldn't have done it without them though! Thanks guys!

Your cake looks awesome! You would be so good running a catering business and it all started with our awesome job together:) You'll have to let me know if you find a cake decorating class. I've been wanting to do one forever. We should get together soon.

I think you and your friends would do well in starting a catering business, that is one beautiful cake! If you want more food/recipe ideas, I'd like to invite you to take some time to drop by at Foodista. We have launched an online food and cooking encyclopedia ala wikipedia where you can contribute and share what you know about food and cooking techniques(and maybe you can also share some of your fave recipes with us too)

Gorgeous, gorgeous cake. Love the effect with the white roses on the chocolate! I also recently made my first wedding cake, and I can totally understand both the stressing and the huge sense of accomplishment. Congratulations!

About Me

My name is Becky...and I'm a bake-aholic. My love for baking started at a very young age when my childhood friend and I would make chocolate chip cookies and tell a story as we did it. The butter represented homes in a small village, the sugar a snow storm, etc. For a long time I considered my recipes to be "secret". After all, they wouldn't be such a big hit among friends and family if everyone else was using them too. But, because so many others are willing to share on their food blogs, I decided it was time for me to do the same. Happy baking!